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Into the neon-lighted Cottage Inn restaurant-motel on teeming U.S. Highway 40 north of Baltimore last week walked Pedro Sanjuan, 31, assistant chief of protocol of the U.S. State Department, on a troubled mission. The day before, the inn had refused to seat and serve a Nigerian diplomat, and Nigeria had lodged a formal complaint with the U.S. Government. Sanjuan had come to ask the Cottage Inn to reconsider its segregation policy-and he was loudly rebuffed. "The hell with the United Nations and the hell with your colored diplomats!" shouted beefy, red-faced Proprietor Clarence Rosier. "I built...
Died. Cayetano Ordonez, 57, one of Spain's outstanding matadors in the 1920s and the inspiration for Ernest Hemingway's stalwart hero, Pedro Romero, in The Sun Also Rises, who sired a family of five bullfighting sons, including Bull Slayer Numero Una Antonio Ordonez, whose suspenseful competition with Luis Miguel Dominguin was chronicled by late Aficionado Hemingway in The Dangerous Summer; of pneumonia; in Madrid...
More than 600 people tried to squeeze into the tiny Boston Community Church Center last night to hear Venezuelan student Pedro Vargas "tell the facts" about Latin American revolutionary movements to a meeting of the Young Socialist Alliance...
...only because he promised to restore legality to the outlawed, mass-based political party APRA. Once in office, Prado tried to develop the nation by switching on the currency presses. The sol sank, the economy wobbled, and Prado came under the withering fire of such critics as Pedro Beltrán, publisher of Lima's influential La Prensa...
...Dominican north coast. Dr. Alejo Martinez, 32, a physician, answered a knock on his door. Submachine guns chattered, and Martinez fell dead on the porch. About the same time, in downtown Sosúa, a telephone call sent an office clerk named Pedro Clisante, 28, put-putting away on his motorbike on an errand that would take him past a military post. As Clisante approached, a soldier blasted him off his bike. Two days earlier, near the provincial capital of Santiago, Epedio Jesús Cabrera had picked up a "hitchhiker" and was later found knifed to death...